Please delete wrote on Aug 27
th, 2010 at 2:46pm:
Another election would be interesting - would the liblabs have any money for advertising??
I don't think they should be allowed to campaign the way they did in the lead up to this one....rather should be expected to maintain a relative passive stance, this and allow the public to engage in the debate the way we weren't encouraged to do last time round as could be demonstrated by their having closed down numerous media-associated news message boards in the lead up to their last election campaign.
Even our leading media opinion-polls were biased, whereby only certain opinions were allowed to be posted on certain sites.
Murdoch - Left
Fairfax - right
Perhaps they should be granted fair and even media coverage...(so many hours)...this and only allowed so many self-funded adds (not at the public's expense).... this and be instructed to keep vicious 3rd party's out of their smear campaigns, like the Australian Workers Unions tacky "Abbott family" youtube clips and false scaremongering adds, they had hoped would go viral.
Rather ironic I thought, given it's the Labor party who appear to all be related to one-another.
How could we regulate the fair use of our media, so neither party exploits it for financial gain?
Also, electoral betting should be scrapped, it's down right unethical...and like all betting, only increases the odds of corruption and cheatery.
Not to mention false misleading figures, so as to appease the punters who bet their houses on them thinking they might cash in..
We need a more transparent and ethical electoral system, this is without a doubt, ideally an electoral reform decided by neither one party or the other, only for it to get changed again whenever someone else becomes PM.
The preference voting system is critically flawed, and is in need of reform.
People should be able to list their preferred independents without having to align themselves with their chosen representatives own preferences.
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